The Higgs Fake

The book is a merciless critique of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and of the theoretical model on which the world's most expensive experiment is based. Unzicker, a German physicist and award-winning science writer, argues that the greatest physicists such as Einstein, Dirac or Schrödinger would have considered the 'discovery' of the Higgs particle ridiculous. According to the author, the standard model has grown unbelievably complicated and doesn't solve any of the great riddles of physics. Moreover, with their increasingly intricate techniques, particle physicists are fooling themselves with alleged results, while their convictions are based on group-think and parroting. Altogether, the data analysis cannot be overseen by anybody.

"Unzicker dares to think outside the mainstream. Readers will find a refreshing and provoking book that pushes the physics community to refocus how it conducts science." --Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, University of Heidelberg

"A major contribution to physics... Unzicker is pointing out that the emperor is naked... The establishment scientists will curse and moan." --Edwin E Klingman, author, former NASA Research Physicist

"A vehement pleading for physics as a natural science, in its best tradition..... highly provoking. However... should set every fair reader thinking."
Wener Kleinert in Zentralblatt MATH (german edition).